Are your dreams a gilded cage?

The Dreamer’s Cage is the name of a particular topic I have taken on in my recent painting and drawing activity. I have included a few of these works below, in August I decided to do a name search on the word “dreamer’s cage” and interestingly enough only one relevant link came up to a poem written in 2012 by a blogger called Phoenix, who allowed me to reprint to poem in this blog.

The Dreamer’s Cage

White like canvas

Longing for paint

You bellow

From your cage

Your voice is faint

And yellow

Like sunshine

Casting a few rays

You sing

But behind those bars

Your melody fades

Stark like night

Craving the light

You think..

Of the better days

The times you lived

The things you did

Before you built

This dreamer’s cage

Phoenix. 2012

In February 2015 I created the first of the many versions of The Dreamer’s Cage, the original was a charcoal drawing created in a very brief amount of time, maybe fifteen minutes, but the effect of seeing it brought me to a stop for the day. It was very powerful to see it unfold on the paper. In the coming days I created an oil on canvas of the same image, again with the same effect on me. At first impression I thought about people who are prisoners of conscience, that is why the lips peak out through the barbed wire wrappings, a stripped figure in a cage. In the many versions since I continue to hold the idea of the figure cut off from it’s surrounding, and in some way acquiescing to circumstance.

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Creative potency is the ultimate tool for social transformation and soul development, not just for the individual but for all those that surrender to it's power.
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Terrence Mckenna "The body is the placenta of the soul".
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